The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-10 00:00:00

ONEY MAR KET AND iiPMIIIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There continues to be a good demand for accom lzedation in the discount market, owing no doubt to some heavy Indian engagements due to-day, but as the supply of capital is abundant first class bills are negotiated at 6/ to 7 per cent. About £48,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday, but 12,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for Alexandria. A slight downward movement took place in the f oreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. Since Monday last the imports of specie have amounted to £374,300, and the exports to 41 , 0 83,900. The directors of the Otago and Southland In 'refitment Company have made a call of 10s. per share, payable on or before the 10th of January nezt at the company's bankers. Arrangements have been concluded for the amal• Ramation of the Bank of Wales with the Provincial Ilanking Corporation. The subscribed capital of the combined establishments will be £1,300,000, divided into 26,000 shares of £5O each, held by Dearly 800 shareholders, the amount at present paid up being £167,000. The amalgamated bank will have 27 branches, and a fusion of the Boards will take place, and the business will be carried on under the name of the Provincial Banking Corporation. The report of the London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate Bank, to be submitted to the second ordinary meeting to be held on Friday, the 16th D ecember, states that the directors congratulate the proprietors upon the result of the second year's t. Perations. The directors felt themselves justified in Paying an ad interim dividend of 5 per cent. for the first half-year, they are now enabled, after the roost ample provision for all bad and doubtful debts " — Appropriating £l,OOO towards the reduction of Preliminary expenses—and adding £lO,OOO to the reserve fund—to declare for the second half-year a dividend of 5 per cent., and and a bonus of lOs per share on the original shares, and a proportionate bonus on the new shares, and to carry forward to the profit and loss account of the current year the B um of £753 2s. Two o'oLocK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's Telegram, the 3 per cent. French Rentes were 66f. 100 . Inanimate. A decline of 3.16 per cent. has take n pl ace i n th e F unds to-day, Consols being 804 for money, and 89 i for the account. This downward movement has b een i produced by the closin g o f ou t s t an di ng 13 u11" accounts to a large extent, and a statement that large withdrawals of sovereigns will take Place from the Bank early next week for Egypt. The New Threes are 88* ; the Reduced, 88f ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to ls. die.; and India 5 per Bents., 1031. Foreign Stocks have, with few ex c epti ons , de clined and business has been dull. Turkish 6 per C ents., 1862, are 71*; do. Consolides, 46! 47 ; 4 ezican, 29k ; do. New, 27; 4 ; Greek, 22; 23 ; Spanish Passive, 31* 4 ; do. Certificates, 14 ; Portuguese, 47* 48 ; Russi an , 861- 871- ; the Confederate Loan, 58* 591; the Egyptian, el' prom.; and the Danubian, * die. par. In the Railway Share Market there has been l 'ery little animation, and prices have not varied to 411 3 7 important extent. Great Northern A St oc k h as advanced *'and Brighton*, while North Eastern (B erwick) have declined 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines are inactive at about former rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain without Material change in prices. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. !, G OVERNMENT FUNDS. " Per Cent. Consols a Do Account, Jan. 10 t i Per Cent. R e d uce d Bl 1 k, e W 3 per Cent "ew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891.... A 1) 0 5 per C en t., J an . 1873 '" , tnuities, 30 yrs, expire 6" th Jan., 1330 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March. June. 4 chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4& 31 per Cent, 6 1 die 2 di s Do 1500 ,„ Do £lOO and £2OO 'fink England Stk, 51 per Ct. D 0 Accoallt .. INDIA.N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. In dia Stock, 101 p er C en t., A pr il 1874 — .0 Account — '`', o 5 per Cent. July, 1870 .... 'Jo Account — Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 — , Do Certificates DO 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — ''''l,,° 41 pet Cent ~,- - 1 0 Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. -- ",0 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 lO2 "-,° 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — DO 4 -' 0 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 1-'0 Bon.dsEl,ooo 1 5 pm under £l,OOO — A FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. i ls . 8.. trian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. tltzilian 5 per Cent 1) 0 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 13 11 ,,,,, Do 1863 — E'os Ayres 6 per Cent — (:1 1 . ? Account.... e; ....... .... ;pan 6 per C en t. N I ° 41 per Cent C„;_otnbian 6 per Cent — 'h u us 6 per Cent, - b a — h; ? 5 per Cent. 1864 1:7 84 3 per Cent., 1825 1 1 ° 5 per Cent, 1864 Dper Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid lpm ador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — °, Provi sona l L an d W arrant — kb "' t ion 7 per Cent — to £lOO Bonds I ,°, Second Issue tree Scrip, £l6 pa id 1 01 pm ik 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — D 0 Account i;o Coupons — t),.' - ', O Accou n t 9l l it emala 5 per Cent. 4 t l l l ° 1 839 and 1859 ete„Tll oon er per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) ,A 0 3 p Cent Account DO Do 1864 D 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — di e 0 Scrip, £43 paid 41,° French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis x d Il•t7rieh Imperial 5 per Cent i Granad a l2 i i ,o 2 par Cent. - b ie beforred Land Warrants (Hectares) -- 0 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — Pe r ,, Do do Aug., 1866 — Sanii 41 per Cent I) ° , per Cent. (Uribarren) .. — b"l 4 per Cent., 1862 l' (s ~t ° Account Ij_ l4 guese 3 per Cent., 1853 D ° Account — IP 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '60,62,'3 — /42 Account iti an 5 p er C en t 1822, £ S t., — 1 . ) 0 4 i per Cent., 1850 • a ---* b 0 r, 1860 — 1)° . Per Cent 1859 — ~ 4 per Cent, 1862 ts b" 4 .,.ng10-Dutch wht tci ° zerip, £65 paid b ltl iatt per Cent flo tt ° A.ecount 11 11811 3 per Cent too Account 4Bl 1), , N ew Deferred h_ Account iii? Passive $011.44. Account — 4),., 14 h Cert. of Coup not funded .. — a- - Ae., opmi , ount .. ( ktki,,°) 4 per Cent — 1 ),• 1 6 per Cent. 1854 — kij, ecount Per Cent. 1858 . b ,) 'A 'ecount , — b c ? 4100 Bonds b ri 6 Per Cent. 1862 1 Account , 410 0 Bonds 7ll ) 0 Do 1863 \,,b, Di.Unaranteed er Cent. %11Q,. 1 '°, 3 Scrip, £4O paid 4) 9 4 1 ? ' 1 3 per Cent. )) ...co, - p c - urit /), A Per Cent., 1862 bo . 6 (e eount P Cent 1861 4 Di v i d ', b Ost, t i rt ends on the above payabl e i n L ondon. el ; l :ia r , ll ' , 5 per Cent., E x . 10 Fl or i ns . Istet6tlt per Cent., Ex. 25f... P,,01 2 Pc , r Cent., Ex. 12 Gull C2I 1 •4:.. rai l) n e _ r _C ,, nt. Certificates 1 ;44, 6 "ntes, 3 per Cent.. , . , ..... •• • qPo 4, Per Cent. k6l Ex. 25 francs.. qlevi per ' Cent. ,latiteDBollar.Bonds, 41 per C . t.Ex. 4s. 0 1 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — C o „ e,,Q --atei, 1 ‘4 ) 4)1 R vr TWO O'CLOCK, o f , -, • B9 } °LA ............. Bl i .........:11 . '" Zit verPool Cotton Market—This Day. Al * 4 - tket Siteady. SVC3, about 6,000 bales. Share 13.14. st st, st 60 ZO Sk 1 stook stook 20 stook 1:0 stook stook stock stock stook stook stock 20 stock itoot stock Stooh SHARE AIARHETS.—This clay. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuli.S. Railways. Bir.. Str. Val qiythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian or and 13ando❑ Cernwal, D o A A gets no (liV l Do. 11 till Gimp an.has l eCCC been Paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth,& Ab. Juno. 'Edinburgh & Glasgow.' Glasg. and S. Western.: Great Eastern, Ord. &tit' Ditto A stock • Ditto East Anglian st 'ireatNorthoi Scotland' Great Northern Do A stook Doßdo Gt. S. ant W. of Irelari Great Western,Original Do Str Val vua. stock Do. South Wales Do. 'A' e, , t Mid. --Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwail Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover, Lon. & NorthWesterri. Lon. & Swath Western' Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle, Do # shares.. Metropolitan Midland Do Binning. & Derby, l Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwici. Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle Do. Stook. & Darling. Do do 1855-58 Do do lsiG.6l ;North London Do New Do New, 18M North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stoop:! Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South Deyon South Eastern Staines, Wok.,and Wok fail Va1e..... Do C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool 13ar. ASR 100 109 10, a:I all 3 100 100 100 100 Paid. Closing ( Business 1 , Prise. I done. 87 60 130 131 6 7 34 86 16 17 90 92 106 108 47b 18b 7i 8i 134 135 154 /53 130 132 01 78i 7q 67 69 57 59 44 46 100 162 1111 ;15i 82 64 10) 166 37 39 1181 119 97 99 66 (7 121 )22 137 1374 106 .08 55 67 25 27 113 114 1311 711 724 1 3 104 38 89 11 12 p' 9 10, 120 11:5 11 2p 1 1 79 80 Of 1;1 138 142 58 0) 40 42 85} t s} 8 9 163 168 34 441 t 8 110 1561 i 78 i . i i i 1051 11S, 191 19 137 i 103 j 791 38 40 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways Iflantic & St Lawrenc , , torn.,Baroda&Cent in ! Gu. 5 per cent Do. E. Shares tlutlalo and Laxelluron Do. Preteronce •• tuffalo,lirant,&(,odricl i p. Ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1P.7 Do. do. July 1, 187 )0. du. Juue 1, 187 autta.&S.Eastn. ape Town fi Doak Scri Demerara 7 p.o. per. PI ) , :astn. Bengal gu. 5 p. ft:ast Indian. gu. 5 p. c Do. do. J Ext.. • • Grand Trunk of Canad Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist rrel. Bonds Do. do. deferred..." • Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d ef. stock Do. do . . deferred.... Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deferred Gt•lndlaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. GUI. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. a... 'lt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. 41 per cent..... Do R. W. of Canada Share! Do. New .. Do. 6 p.c. '7B with't opt Do. 54 p. 0. do. '77-8.. rndian Branch Limited Iladraf4 guar., 5 p. o. Do. 4t p. o. Extensiot Dc. 14 Do. Fifth Extension. tielb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds Ilelb. & Hobson's Bay. iewlit unawick & Candl Class A and 8.. N.Rl.C'da6 pc Ist pt bd , Soinde Do. Delhi... fg !)o. do , )o. Punjaub •• lo.lndus.St.Flo') all ail all all all all 100 (100 109 ICO 100 Closing Price. Paid. 5S CO 102 i fo3 idle ip 5 bi 8i Di 75 80 98 100 8) 90 103 104 1031 104; 21 22 N 92 70 72 61 64 66 68 56 58 53 54 47 50 30 32 28 30 t 034 104; pr p pr 4p 101 103 0 Oi 11i 11 83 0 80 E 2 f d 104 1031 96 98 91 93 59 CI 82 S 4 10' 1(3 1023 103 1 id ip 1023 103 15 97 Y4l 31 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872.... 100 Do. do. 1883.... 100 - • {hkiev.6 p.c.Ja. al: 1877-31 *..... 100 98 99 991 81 Do. I p.'e. Feb.& Atu, 100 97 09 D 0.6 p.c.Mar.& Sept 100 97 99 D0..5 p. c. Jan.&July. 10,' 87 89 Do. 5 Inscribed stool, 100 86 89 'ape (I.llope, 6p 0,187: 100 104 106 Do.Ap & Oct. 188( 100 105 107 Do. 189 , 100 106 108 d)o. Jan. & July. 1891.. 100 109 111 Nov.lBBB, 6 p 100 102 105 DO. 1878, do. 100 (°9 112 Afturitius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 05 107 Do. 1878 100 06 109 Do. 1882 100 107 110 i'atal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 i(.5 107 N1.8.G0v.6 p.c. J a.&Jul) 100 90 102 ‘l. S.W. Gov. 5 p a., 180, 100 97 99 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 187( 100 95 97 90 Do, d0.,1888 dtupwth 100 94 96 iew Zealand 6 p cent 100 105 107 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. steriinf,, , , 1875. lOO ;00 102 /ueensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 104 10) 1041 i.Aus Gov. 6 p.0.1E68- 100 Do. 1.76 ttulivard , ... 100 07 109 Vic. Gov. 6 p,(l. Ja.&July 100 Do. lo a p.c. An.&001.. 1 100 061 107} 107 df BRITISH. MINES. 2 • 'ambrian Consol. Gold 1 Chiver ton Junora Amalgamated.. 335 345 , levon G. Cons. (Taoist. 1 580 600 Drakewal:s .. • ..... 2.1.0. f 1 East. Bassett (Illogah).. so 50 65 ;last Caradon ..... 3 1.14. t 18 20 191 last Cern Brea • ..... .4.0 65 7 East Grenville 2.7.0. 55 8 East Lovell E. tri Russel (Tavistk 8.13. 55 51 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen 60 5 7 4 Great Laxey, all 171 185 19 great South 'l.`cq - us.., 17s l 2 x. Wheal Vor(lielstoh 40 34 36 4renville.. tlerc,d's-Foot 8.13 35 37 lingston D0wn5...... 1.18.( 4 41 Ilargaret (lJny Lelan it 8 9 ,large Valley.. ....... . 0 4 4 4 , Iyndy Iron Ore (Lim. 24 ........ /9 18 New Setun 2l} tO 70 - • '7orth Downs• • ...... North Roskear. .. . .... 4.1% h'i Badset(lllo4aL 3.10,6 11 2 corth Wheal Crotty 2.80 2 21 Prosper United...o 35 3 crovidenoe(Uny Lein' lO 0.7 31 36 3outhCaradon(St.Cleer 15 20 540 =W heal Fran. (Illogan ,18.18.5, 33 36 Stray Park Cin Cratt r )6 17 181 West Basset (Mogan), 14 7 9 W Cr radon ILiskeard 2 6 11 West Chiver :on West Sutton .05 215 Wheal Basset (Mogan, 51 90 98 Wheal Buller(ltedrutl, 10 g WhealLudoott ...... 3.5.r 5 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 13 15 Wheal Oeton ........ . 585 .95 200 Treiawney (Lis. 7 19 21 Wheal Uni0n.......... 4 FREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. pm., 1051 Great Western Orig. 48 per cent pi., 96) 74 Great Western, Birmingham gua. stock, 72 Great Western, Chester gua. stock, Ditto, 8 per cent. pf. st., 165 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Di' to, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 134 North Eastern, York, 11. and Selby purchase, 10f f LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent., 110 Midland Bradford pf. stock, 93j FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, t Bahia and San Francisco klitn.) gua. 7 per cent., 14} Imperial Mexican, lim. 31 Recite and San Francine (Um.), gua. 7 per cent., 14 Sambre and Meuse, 7 FOREIGN mirrEs, Port Philip, 1i I St. John del Rey (Ihm), 33} BANKS. Alliance (11m.). sg Ditto, new, 37 Anglo Austrian, 7 Anglo-Italian, line„ 3/ it Australasia, €9:701 Ditto, new, 65 Consolidated Bank, lira., 111 Eastern Exchange, 61 European Bank, lira., Imperial Ottoman, 17 I 6 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, lira.; 111 London Joint Stock, Ditto, new, issued at 30 pm., 35i 1 London and South African, 211 21 Metropolitan arid Provincial Bank, lim., 174 Union of London, 5(1 551 MISCELLANEOUS. Ceylon Company, 116 11 City ottic(•a, Jim., 5 Company of African Merchants, lim., 2 • Continental Union Gas, lira., 10 - Credit Fonder and Mobi►it r of England, 81 Ditto (£2), 5; Egyptian Corn, and Trading, Dm., 5 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um., 7 Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lira.. 81 International Financial society, Urn., 7 1 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour , 61 London Financial Association ; Jim., Ditto, new, 23; 4 Mt dras Irrigation and Canal, 5; Ditto (all), 201 ; national Discount Company, lira., 151 I Ocean Marine Insurance), 261 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian B. Mail, Ditto, new (.C5), 3} Societe Financiere d'ii:gypte, Um., 3; Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lira., 74 FIE E Su/N, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. STONE V. STONE AND APPLETON. This ease, which MU: commenced yesterday, was resumed at the sitting of the Court this morning. It was the petition of Captain Stone for a dissolution of Es marriage with Matilda Catherine, his wife, on account of her alleged adultery with Mr _Robert Appleton, fig rinst whom he claimed damages to the extent of £5,000. The respondent denied the charge. '1 he co-respondent, under somewhat pecular circumstances, did not appear. The leading facts were as follows :—The respondent was Miss Slack, a daughter of the rector of Morton Hampstead, Devonshire, and the marriage took place in March, 1804. Capt. Stone and his NN ire shortly afterwards went to India, where they remained till after the mutiny. The petitioner then came home on sick leave ; and in the summer of 1858 ho wont to live at Budleigh Salterton, near Exeter. In the August of the following year the petitioner re.urned to India, but the state of his wile's health did not permit of her accompanying him. She had previously had three children ; and soon after her husband's departure she was conficed of a fourth. She had been left by the petitioner under the medi cal care of Mr Appleton, a surgeon, who was practising at Budleigh. Oa May 2, 1861, the petitioner again returned to his wife ; and ore the 2d of the following January—that was, in 33 weeks afterwards—the respondent was delivered of a fifth child. In the previous December her husband had accused her of itnidelity, and after the birth of the child, in lodgings at Exeter, he filed his petition. Previous to his return, Mr Appleton disappeared from Budleigh; and the suit having proceeded in his absence, the case was taken against him pro confess°, the jury awarding £2,000 against him as damages. The chief evidence against the re spondent was the testimony of a surgeon named Webb, who had deposed that the child at its birth was of mature growth. A new trial was moved for on account of the great pre• judice from which the respondent had suffered on ac count of the absence of the correspondent, and also on account of the extremely unsatisfactory evidence of Mr Webb, who had died before the trial, and who had been examined by a commission. The late Judge Ordinary refused the application, but an appeal was made to the full court, which consisted of Sir Cresswell Creswell, Mr Justice Wightman, and Mr Baron Channell. Sir C. Cresswell died before the decision of the court was pro nounced ; but the remaining judges granted a new trial as prayed—this judgment being the only instance in which the ruling of the late Judge Ordinary was reversed by his col leagues. In the meantime Mr Appleton, who had gone to America, was found, and he sent over affidavits stating that he was not cognisant of the proceedings against him until just before the trial; that the moment he had heard of them he set off to return to England, but that before he could take ship he was informed of the verdict; that hav ing left England in the first instance to avoid his creditors, he dared not return with a condemnation in damages to such an amount hanging over him; that he was perfectly innocent of the adultery of which he had been convicted by the jury; and that his sole motive for leaving Budleigh Salterton was one connected with his pecuniary embarrass ments. The examination of witnesses to prove the case of the petitioner occupied the court the whole of the day. The case is not expected to conclude until Wednesday next. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Bofure Mr Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE J. W. COLE. This bankrupt was formerly a clerk under the Trinity Board and in the Customs, and was granted by the Lords of the Privy Council of Trade a pension of £3OO a year. Ho came before this Court in July, 1862, owing £338, with no assets except the pension, Ho was opposed on the ground of excessive expenditure and extravagance in living, he having been insolvent in 1856. A conditional order of discharge had been granted on the bankrupt undertaking to set aside £lOO a year of the pension for the ben&fit of his creditors. He had since paid £ll5, but being in arrear was now summoned for the amount. The bankrupt attributed his failure in payment to ex penses occasioned by tho illness of his family, and asked for time to enable him to make up the deficiency. His Honour said that an adjournment till the 14th Jan, would be granted for that purpose, but in default the order of discharge would be of no avail. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr Commissioner Kerr.) TILE FENCRURCH - STREET MURDER,-EXTRAORDINARY ACTION TO RECOVER FUNERAL EXPENSES FOR BURY- ING MRS. GARDINER,- SURGUY V. DENIS. This was an action to recover £lB, balance of an account duo treat the estate of Gardiner, the sweep who is now undergoing a sentence of penal servitude for life for the murder of his wife, in Northumberland-alley, on September, 1862, Mr Dodd appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Butler Rigby for the &fondant. According to the instructions handed to the attorney for the plaintiff, it appeared that on September 15, 1862, Mrs Gardiner was found dead in her room in Northumberland alley, renchurch-street, and on the 24th the husband paid plaintiff £5 on account of the funeral expenses. On the same day Gardiner was arrested for the murder of his wife. Upon the trial Gardiner was convicted and cast for death, but upon the day appointed for his execution he was reprieved. Mr Dodd called the plaintiff, who said—l am an under taker. I agreed with Gardener to bury his wife for and he paid me £5 on account. I saw defendant, who pro mised to pay me the balance. Mr Butler Rigby—Now do not say that, because it is not so. Mr Dodd (to plaintiff)—Who is the defendant ? Plaintiff—He is the stepson to Gardener. He had all the property left by Gardener. It was agreed that he should pay me. Mr Dodd—Was the agreement in writing ? Plaintiff—No, it was not in writing, but I have a witness who will prove all the conversation. Mr Rigby --I wish to call your Honour's attention to the fact that there was no proraise in writing. His Honour—There is an act called Lord Tenterden's Act. Plaintiff—l can state that when Gardener was taken he loft a great deal of property behind him, and his stepson (Davis) had a long conversation, after which it was agreed that defendant should pay the XS balance. Mr Rigby—We deny it. Plaintiff—The stepson had all the property. Mr Rigby—Now, really I cannot allow this to go on. His Honour—You do not sue defendant as executor de son tort. Mr Dodd—Oh no, lie is not dead. His Honour—ls Mrs Gardener dead ? Mr Rigby—Yes, sir ; the facts are these. Gardener was tried and convicted at the Old Bailey for the murder of his wife. He was reprieved and is now in prison during her Majesty's pleaure. ills Honour—How is this, Mr Dodd ? Tho man is still Mr Dodd (who was holding the brief for Mr Ring (Wood and Ring) I cannot carry the case any further. Mr Rigby—There is no case. His Honour—l had better nonsuit you, Mr Dodd, because at some future time you could come again. Plaintiff was then nonsuited with costs. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-011 Saturday night last Mr Henry Kirkby, of Underbarrow, and Mr Robert Deere, of Lyth, left Kendal to return home, after attending the market. Boih resided at a distance of four or five miles from Kendal oh the other side of the steep limestone ridge, known as Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar, uhfbh separates Kendal from the valley of Crosthwaite, Lyth, and Under barrow. They were well-to-do farmers living on their own estates. The night was dark and stormy, and floods were out in all directions on the low-lying lands below the Scar. Mr Kirkby, however, never reached that point. He was found on Sunday morning lying dead near a limekiln not many hundred yards distant from Kendal. Apparently ho had fallen from the top of the limekiln, and so been killed, The kiln was not burning, but some lime where he had fallen had had sufficient heat to burn his clothes in some places. It is supposed that the deceased and his cm panion had been taking a short cut from the end of the town into the Underbarrow-road. This path traverses the quarries and the ground where the limekilns are situated, and it is probable that Mr Kirkby niistcok his way iu the darkness, and so tell over in front of the kiln. Mr Deere appears to have been heard of last at the Punch Bowl Inn, Underbarrow, about a mile and a half from his own house. Ile stated there that he had lost Mr Kirkby, he did not know how, and was urged not to go forward, as the mosses, across which a portion of his way lay, were flooded. He, however, declined this advice, and has not since been heard of. There can be little doubt that the unfortunate man was drowned on the moss, and his body perhaps be carried by the swollen stream of the Underbarrow pool and river Gilpin past his own house to the sea at Mi]nthorpe sands, Morecambe Bay.—Manchester Courier. A NEWSBOY'S LUCK.—The pickets of the Army of the Potomac, says the New York Tinzes, captured a little rebel newsboy a few days ago. The boy was a very young and diminutive personage, and his capture caused a good deal of amusement. The little fellow has just been sent back, much to his satisfaction ; when he was again taken outside of our lines:by Lieut.-Colonel Oiborne, of General Crawford's staff, no one was visible. After waiting impatiently for some one from the rebel lines to make their appearance, the colonel set the urchin on a stump and re traced his steps. lle had not gone far when the boy got down, and fwampered away for his friends' lines as fast as he could. IT is no doubt a great ITI tin now in the rebel C 401115, WHIRLING ROUND A WINDMILL.— A few days ago It;i. John Henry Spooner, miller, ratrington, went upon one of his mill sails to do a little repairs. 'W Wile on the sail the winds blew very strong, and the mill ran through' her break. He held fast, and was taken four or five times round; and had it not been for the timely assist ance of a neibhbour, who ran into the mill and lowered some of the stones, which happened to be in gear, there is no doubt but he would have been killed, When taken cif the sail he was quite black in the face. Several people saw him whirling round,—AShe#4l4 Telegraph. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. BREAKING AND ENTERING A DISTILLER'S PREMISES. —James Wilson, a young man in the employ of Mr Henry Brett, of the Old Furnival's Distillery, as porter at the branch office in Regent-street, was charged before Mr Kn)x with breaking and entering the premises of his em ployer in Regent-street, and stealing about £1 9s. Mrs Hannah Brown, servant to Mr Brett, said—Yes terday evening, about seven o'clock, while in the kitchen, I heard a noise overhead, and on going upstairs found a panel leading into the shop broken in. I spoke to the police, and they got through the aperture. I then left and went to Kensington to acquaint my master, leaving the police in charge of the place. The panel was a little broken before, and believe it had previously been tampered with. The prisoner is the porter, but does rot sleep on the pre mises. When I came back from Kensington the prisoner wee in custody of the police. Alfred Austin, 336 A—On being called yesterday even ing to Nu. 30, Regont - street, I found a panel broken suf ficiently to admit a man. I got inside and lit a candle, aLd looked round the plac9, and then sent the servant for the proprietor. I remained qu i et, an d h ear i ng a no i se down stairs, I then called in another constable and went into the cellar, and on opening a cupboard door I found the prisoner crouched on his hands and knees. I pulled him out and asked what he was doing there, and he said that some men outside had told him to break into the place. On searching him I found a half sovereign, four shillings, and a penny in his pockets. I then took him into the shop, an d remained till the manager came, and the manager then found that a desk had been forced open and some money taken from it. On asking the prisoner where it was, ho said, " In No. 3 bin." Sergeant Horsey, 6 C—Prisoner told me he got through the hole, and that some fellow had asked him to break in, telling him that he knew the police. On asking him if he knew the persons he said he did not. On the prisoner say ing the money was in No. 3 bin, I went to the bin in the cellar and removed some bottles and hard dust, and found in different pieces of paper £4 9s in all, and the prisoner said that was the money he had taken from the till. Mr Arthur Chesterton, manager of the Regent-street branch of Mr Brett's business, said—On arriving at the premises in Regent - street I found the place in charge of the police. I found the money left in the desk gone, and it was found in a bin where the prisoner said ho had put it. The prisoner had been 10 weeks in Mr Brett's employ—a good character being received with him. The prisoner left the premises before I did. Mr Brett wished, as the prisoner had had a good character, and helped to support his mother, that the prisoner might be dealt leniently with, Mr Knox—There are certain cases I have not the power to deal with, and this is one. All that has been said on be half of the prisoner can be urged before the Judge. The prisoner, who put no questions to the witnesses, and made no answer to the charge, was then committed for trial. MARKETS—This Day. COVENT Tho market is fairly suppli The trade rules steady at the FRE S. d. s. d. 8 oto 10 0 GARDEN. ied with fruit and vegetableEs following currencies : s. d. s d itWberries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 Foreigli do., each 0 oto 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 6 Orapes,per lb 4 oto 8 0 Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0 Foreign do 0 oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 0 9to 1 0 Melons .. Nectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 1 3to 3 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100..4 oto 8 0 Peaches, per d 0... 0 oto 0 0 Lemons, per 100 3 6to 7 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Gooseberries hf sve.) oto 0 0 Plums, per do. .. 4 6to 5 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0 Damsons, pr d 0... 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 4 oto 5 0 Shallots, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz. 1 3to 2 0 Horseradish, pdn 1 oto 2 6 I.lld ditto 2 OSo 3 6- Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 1 oto 2 0 Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 6 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 6to 3 .0 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli 0 Bto 1 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 6 Potatoes, per ton 60 oto 20 01 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 New ditto, pr cwt 0 oto 0 0 Mushrooms. p pt. 0 oto 0 0 "jurnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots, pr do • 4 6to 5 6 J Cos lett, score .. 0 oto 0 C Cucumbers 0 oto 0 0 Mint and savory..o oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 I Radishes, dz buds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, n.-sv. 0 oto 0 0, Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 ' Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn.. 1 6 to 2 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 ‘. to 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0 Spinach 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 0 to 0 0 Brussels sprouts 1 3 sot 0 Seakale, per bun. 2 oto 3 0 POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s Od to 8s 6d; geese, 4s Od to 7s Gd each; goslings, Os to Os Od ; ducks, is 6d to 3s 3d ; ducklings, Oa Od to Os Od; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each; wild do., 9J to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os 8d each; Surrey fowls, 8s Od to 12s Od ; chickens, 6s to 9s Od ; barn door fowls, 4s 6d to 7s ld ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; ptarmigan, Os to Os Od each ; pheasants, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; partridges, is 3d to 2s ; woodcocks, 2s to 3s Od; snipes, 6d to is Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; widgeons, is Od to is 6d; plovers, Os 4d to is each; guinea fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, is Od to is 4d ; English, is 4d to ls 7d per lb ; English eggs, Ile Od to 128 Od ; French do., 9s Od to 10s Od per 100 ; leverets, is Od to 28 e'd ; grouse, 2s 01 to 3s Od. THAMES, A DISGUSTING MONSTER, —IMPORTANT PROSECU TION.—Thomas Drakeley, a tall man, aged 24 years, and who had lost his right arm, was brought before Mr Part • ridge charged with causing an obstruction on the footway of York-street, East, and adjoining the Stepney Railway station, and with using indecent laoguaga to the annoyance of the passengers. Mr Thomas Horsley, inspector of plico, stated that at ten o'clock on Friday night he saw the prisoner on the foot path in the Commercial•road, selling indecent and obscene pamphlets, marked price Cd, but for which he only asked a penny, constituted a book without a name, on a nameless subject, a tit bit for everybody, By " Naughty Peeping Tom." The prisoner had a great num ber of playing cards in his hands. Some of them on being held up to the light exhibited views and somas of an offensive description. A boy purchased one of them, and the prisoner said, " Ah, you young rascal, you would have this because you saw -, The rest of the sentence is unfit for publication. Tho prisoner then went on to address the people assembled in a very improper manner, and gave utterance to a very obscene address. Mr Partridge here ordered the women out of the court, and was surprised they had not retired long since. Patrick Maddigan, a police sergeant No. 60 K, confirmed the evidence of the inspec!or, and said ho purchased one of the obscene pamphlets last night at half-past 8 o'clock. The prisoner said, "I thought you would have one by the cut of your eye." The prisoner said he did not say one half stated by the inspector and sergeant, and that having lost his arm he had no other way of getting his living. Mr Partridge said the prisoner had clearly violated two acts of Parliament, and the pamphlet was one of an obscene character. He was very sorry he could not commit such a disgusting blackguard to the treadmill under the Vagrant Act without the option of a fine. He fined the prisoner 40si in each case, awl in &fault two months' imprisonment. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. --*-- LONDON, Dec. 10.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly ; moderate breeze, and five weather, but rather cloudy. MILFORD, Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Henry Pad donsey, from Liverpool for Singapore, with her rudder carried away. FALMOUTH, Dec, 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—West, from Manilla for Liverpool. PILL, Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mont Blanc, from Mauritius—Agnes C. James, from Richibucto— Yuba, from St John's, N B. PORTSMOUTH, Doe. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Trident, from Malta, and proceeded for the Eastward. HOLYHEAD, Dec. B . —Sailed—Arabian, for Melbourne— Volant, for Gibraltar, (lIIC MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, Dec. O—Martha, from Dantzic—Ocean Chid, from St Michael's—Lionne, from Gravelinea—Donna Amelia, from Calcutta. Arrived, Dec. 10—. Elizabeth Sarah, and Anemone, from Windau—Jessamine, from Fayal—Wonder, from Cron stadt—Niurd, from Nestoid—Princess Beatrice, from St. Michael's. s a il e d—Bilbao, steamer, for Bilboa. Re urnel—The Whisper, for ➢lauritius. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Arrived and Passed—Morning Star, from Landon for Kul r.,ohee. ES a iled—Landweraturn, for London, in town, to repair dawages. puTTING IT RATTIER STRONGLY. —A correspon rvilobr7ssent appeal. correspon dent of the Times writes as follows :—" I venture to hope that you will not allow the subject of the advertising quacks, has however heen unpleasantde ne e e r i d t smpa purifying r b i f e y , i n to g drop eur until newspaper som e - and someth'ng towards abating the nuisance itself. former result can only bo arrived at by the pressure public s opinion. Let it once be understood that the pro. oeTt some thing The sheets, g t prietors of papers that admit these advertisements are the direct recipients of the wages of iniquity exactly as much as any pimp or pander that walks the streets of Rome or Milan, and the thing will be done. The imputasion of such t h also eir ia m b : a partnership in profits earned by far more loathsome vile ness than that of the poor girl who makes her living in the streets would be more than even the proverbial callousness of a company of shareholders could put up with. The L tables might such edho sheetsm ueh a s by may continue ultimately As to the museums, &c., those tdr2l.eaoacpnifsucitdobonialitthgecedfl by "friends" and " advisers," combind with eb the foul accessories of London prostitution, n simple set of nolice regulations or an Act of Parliament. if necessary, r ' - thorn away at once. They are tolerated in no ought to mi.,. capital, and tion of London." arc a bs :ndal and disgrace to the civiliza other " —te to LEECH AS AN ARTIST. ---If we are at nu.... describe Mr Leech's work as a kind of epistolary art, a pictorial correspondence, this phrase will have the further advantage of indicating the singularity of his posi tion as Hie position le as si ngu l ar i n thi s cen t ur y as that a of H artist.ar th was in the la s t, S omet i mes these two men are compared together; but, indeed, it i s i m p oss ibl e t o measure them by a common standard. O ne canno t com aog pare a first rate lotter-writer, like Madame do Sevigne, with a first rate dramatist. like Moliere. We cannot put an idyllic poet on the same level with an epic one. M r L eec h use d a very humble medium for the expression of his thinking; and he adopted it for better, for worse. It had the disadvantage of being unfit for the higher exercises of pictorial genius; while, on tho other hand, it had the advantage of appeal ing quickly to prodigious multitudes, and of thus enabling the artist, from week to week for twenty years, to play directly, and without intermission, on the hearts of a whole nation. And that is the secret of our friend's success; he had gone to our hearts and had become part of our life. He had, in this century, discovered, or at least turned to account, a new method of art, as II ogarth had done in the ast century. . . . But Mr Leech in the present un itary drew still nearer to the popular feeling. Ho found a now way through the instrumentality of Puna. Hogarth's way was not entirely his own. He had learnt it from the Dutch masters, and his originality consisted in seeing that by endowing pictures of domestic life with keen moral purpose he could adapt them to the English mind. So Mr Leech fuund a way made for him, but he had the merit of instantly seizing on it, and making the most of it. His work has in it the neces sary limitations of comedy; it was not often that in tho pages of a journal professedly humorous, ho could touch tragedy. But allowing for these limitations—the limita • lion of subject imposed by comedy, and the limitation of treatment imposed by the nature of his means—it is im possible not to be struck with his reach as an artist—with the range of his knowledge, with the accuracy of his eye, with the perfect sympathy that entered into all his touches, with:his clearness and simplicity of expression, with the sense of beauty and the love of nature that regulated all his:perceptions. Certainly no man bafore him, with means so slight, had ever accomplished so much, whether we mea sure his achievement by the amount of expression in his drawings, or by their effect on the popular mind.—" Corn hill [Magazine" fer _December. BILLING SOATE. Salmon, 2s 6d to Os Od ; trout, Od to Od ; eels, 8d to Is ; prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per 1b ; turbots, 4s Od to 18s ; cod, 3s Od to 12s Od ; brills, is Od to 108 Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to 2s 6d ; lobsters, Is Od to 3s; crabs,6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and garnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 3d to 38 .0d per pair; common oysters, Ps to 18s ; natives, 74s to 84s per bush. ; whitings, Od to 128 ; hP,ddocks, 4s to 208 ; smelts, 0* Od to Os Od; flounders, Os 01 per dozen ; mackerel, Os to —s per 120 ; fresh herrings, 88 to Os per 120; bloaters, Os to Os per 100; carp and tenon, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPOILT. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 6d to bs Od ; lamb, Gel Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and pork, ; - ;t3 6d to 5s Od per Blbs, by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 3s to 4s 8d; mutton, 3s 6d to 5s Od; veal, 3s 10d to 4110 d ; and pork, 3. 6d to 5s Od per Blbs by tho carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 61d to 7d, of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. • Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d to 3}d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d toind ; 721 b to 801 b, 31d to 4d; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 4}d; 881 b to 961 b, 41d to M; 961 b to 1041 b, 5d to sid ; 1041 b to 1121 b, 5d to ad. Horse hides, 10s Od to 12s Od ; calf skins, light, 2s 6d tv 4s Od ; full, 7s 6d to Os 04 ; polled sheep, 9s 6d to 12s Od; half-breds, 8s Od to 9s 6d; Downs, 6s Od to 7s 6d; lambtl, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 5s to £5 7s 6d; clover, £5 5s to £6 7s 6d; and straw, £1 63 to £1 10s per load. Trado firm, CUMBERLAND—Meadow hay, £4 58 to £5 78 Od; clover, £5 5s to £6 108 Od ; and straw, £1 63 to £1 103 per load. A. active demand. WHITECKAPEL,.--Meadow hay, £4 53 to £5 73 6d ; clover, £5 50 to £6 108 Od ; and straw, £1 Gs to £l. 108 per load. Trade steady. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week, Itailwaya. Miles Opened. Receipts. 1864. 1863. 1864. 1863. 136 1,936 2,03 49 655 599 28 2,i43 1,653 Belfast and N. Counties 136 Belfast and County Down 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B Bristol and Exeter l2l} Caledonian Cambrian 1211 5,655 5:514 164 19,011 17,475 84 1,537 1,319 81 353 320 20 331 4'5 115 131 32 339 304 65 1,464 1.203 17 372 315 63 1,315 1.406 75 1,485 1,536 23 281 392 91k 3,003 2,786 51 3,217 2,809 IfB 8,820 33,327 663 29,601 29,044 853 34,174 3 .311 58 1,768 1,591 711 484 486 3731 7,419 7,974 1169 61,000 67,992 125 1061 1,373 1,293 1191 1,485 1,135 145 1,452 1,720 27 510 220 401 34,193 35,250 241 143 197 261 87 136 461 464 617 20t 382 353 12321 101,791 95,618 6f 1,717 1,665 4511 19,133 19,211 2811 17,573 16.158 721 4,736 4,218 101 1,075 875 421 1,081 1,019 2424 18,312 17,393 54 1,325 1,203 28 1,525 1,414 31 2,241 1,852 641 49,207 43,375 2591 4,633 5,150 711 3,510 1,513 44 2,9/9 2,490 Cockerraouth& Workington 8i Cork and Bandon 2O Cork, Blackrock, & Passage... 6 Cork and Youghal Cornwall 651 Deeside l7 Dublin & Bell as t Junction. Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Mcath Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid. 91k Furness, _ _ Glasgon; & South-Western l9B Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.Union 663 Great Northern 387 Great North of Scotland 5B Gt. N ort hn. & Westn. (Irel.) ?lt `34.Southu. & Westn.(lrlud.) 3Bl Great Western 1221 Hull and Hurnsea l3 Inverness &Aberdeen June 117/ Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 Irish North-Western 145 Kent Coast 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 Limerick and Ennis... 241 Limerick and loynes 261 Llanelly 461 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London and Blackwall London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 London, Chatham, & Dover 72} Do. Metropolitan Extension 114 Lon , Tilbury, & Southend Han.,Sheilieid,& Lineolnsh 244 blanch. S.J un.& A ltrincham Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan 3l Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6511 Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind 262 Monkland 7ll Moumouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Danl 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 251 Rhymney l9l Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon b outh-Eas tern BOB Tall Vale 67 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath 431 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 27i W.llartlepool llarbr.&Rail 521 Whaven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitehaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 583} 1095 9 251 193 113 k 1,98 75i 305 Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction 261 Bombay, Baroda, (_'en. India 1851 Detroit and Milwaukie lB9_ Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France 1176 Eastern Bengal .... _llO East Indian: Grand Trunk of Canada 1335 Great Central of Belgium 22) Great Indian Peninsula 5,3 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras • • • Madrid, Saragossa &Aiicant (81 Northern of Canada 19,995 19.273 6'..,788 55,918 3,097 3,037 8,774 8.433 1,047 1010 6,382 6,101 4,680 4,t 75 7iB 69/ 3.619 3,243 18,256 17,457 6,914 6,-87 2,492 2,347 15t 2,808 247 1,119 761 4,575 655 101) 828 40,191 31,732 781 311 _ 265 375 325 185 i 1,911 2,467 189 6,798 6,371 108 k 4,832 4,280 1428 66,218 62, 86 110 1,508 2,131 037 1335 24,623 24,307 220 6,975 - 538} 10,211 7,112 134 4,541 4,057 79 665 499 315 11,547 11,942 498 6,856 4.868 650 16,224 19 , 294 91 1,949 1,385 697 58,134 57,583 44 838 1,051 44 526 324 178 k 135,392 142,637 1614 71,380 70,432 77i 6?7 559 105. 1,9::6 2,014 32 14 , !4 770 196 75 93L 223 253 5 ,937 62,765 26,386 28,054 8,:,27 8,042 335 408 1,043 985 4i,035 40,610 127 267 1.416 8,3 4.211 651 957 83) Northern of France 6,47 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman .. Paris, Lyons, & Mcditerrn 1967 Paris and Orleans 1616 Pernambuco 774 Sninde.... les Do. Punjab, &c 32 South Austrian Southern of France .... K.'.3 Victoria Welland West Flanders 75 West a Westn of France lOll SPARROWS BREEDING IN WINTER.—The other day, the sexton of the parish church, Wick, while -- out the Sinclair aisle, discovered a male end female of feeding a family of young ones, that ' prom their shells. It is seldom • at this se?son comes 'he fact cannot •'on, for Cler"Du e , sparrow in the au. had only recently emergeu that an instance of sparrow breeltu b under the notice of naturalists. Certainly be adduced as a proof of the mildness of the although we have not yet had a rnow showenthe season Ipt. been the stormiest on record for many years.—.l6l them Ensign. WOODCOCKS IN SURREY.—An unusually large number of woodcocks have been flushed during this week in the wood banks on the Surrey hills. They are rare in this county; they invariably migrate from the west in the autumn and pay a fly;ng visit to the marshy and bog soils in the coverts of the south, but have deferred their transit this year till the present moon, and in the light nights have located very numerously, and the epicures of game and sportsmen are on the qui vine, and bagging them with vivid competition, A RAT CATCHING FISH.—A few days ago, while a number of boys were amusing themselves at the river-side at Wick, their attention was directed to the move ments of a large rat, which every now and then came stealthily out of its hiding-place,and cautiously advanced to the side of the river, retreating when the boys throw stoma at it, end returning as soon as a suspension of juvenile hoe tilities admitted. The boys resolved to give the rat a chance of a " lay," during which it ran out of its hole, suddenly plunged into the river, and returned in an instant with a small live &under in its mouth, with which it raa into its domicile, taking care not:to return to its fishing quarters so long as the urchins remained near them.—.ll 7 o) thorn Ensign. EXTRAORDINARY DELUSION.—SamueI Baker, an inmate of the Landon Lunatic Hospital, committed suicide the other day by strangling himself in the water closet. Oue delusion to which he was subject was that every meal he took cost him Ll,OOO, and that he should soon be ruined. In consequence of this it was difficult to get him to eat. He was not a suicidal patient, but the man-. ner of his death showed great determination. He tied one end of a handkerchief round his neck and the other end he fastened to the knob of the door, and then by sinking down and tugging at the handkerchief he managed to effect his purpose. He was 60 years of age, and was from 'Welton le- M ar oh,— etansfot 4 Mercury, Business don( alive. The Great leolish Trial at Berlin. This monster tilt' 1, which has continued nearly five months, was closed on the 2d instant. 127 of the accused were actually tried by the Court, 11 had gone abroad, and 11 others were absent on tic• count of illness, or from other causes. The Crown Prosecutor has mcrved that those who went abroad should be sentencted to death par contuniace, and the others who w aro absent be given a new trial. Of the 127 who were tried,, the prosecution has proposed that four—Messrs, Kosinski, Niegole %add, Rust( j ko, and Ca :tier—should be sentenced to death, three to 15 years' imprisonment, 22 t o 10 years, one to eight years, and 35 to six years. The remaining 62 are recommended for liberation. The President of the Court has filled the 231 instant for the pub lication of the Bente:ices, adding, however, that the Court will perhaps not be able to complete the heavy task -before it by that day. The following is an account of some of the more remarkable inci dents of the trial since our last report After the speech of Dr. Niegolewski's counsel, on the motion of the prosecution that sentence of death be passed upon him, the well-known Polish mem ber of the Prussian Chamber made some striking remarks on the position of the Poles under Prus sian rule. He said that, although they were Prus sian subjects, they had the guaranteed right of being Poles, end regarding themselves as mem bers of the whole Polish nation ; and that they had therefore not ceased to be Poles—not being so dead to all sense of honour:and dignity as to renounce their nationality. The prosecu tion had stated that neither the peasants nor the higher nobility had favoured the insurrection. This statement was incorrect. The peasants did take part in the insurrection, and if they did no take part in it such numbers as they would have done had there been sufficient arms, that was not their fault. As regards the highest nobility of Posen, it should not be forgotten that the Polish nobility cannot be compared with any other, It had its own historical mission, and if there is any nobi lity to which may be applied the words of Salluat : —" Fortibus actibus atqne boz a fair a. neque divitis neque superb* nobilis ignobilem prse:bat," it was the Polish nobility of ell grades, from the highest to the lowest. The Polish nobility did not regard the defence of its privileges as its mis sion. It had always shown a disposition to sacri fice itself for its country, and had always taken active part in the development of freedom and education. Is a noble to be a representative of reaction and of obscurantism -because he is of noble blood P The Polish nobility rejected such a principle ; it did not base its fame on its ancient lineage, but on its own merits. He would quote as examples of true Polish nobility two great famis lies of Posen, distinguished for their efforts in the cause of education—the Dzialynskis and the Riczynskis. And yet these were the very men who were the most violently attacked by the pro seution. The truth was that every man in the Duchy of Posen helped the insurrection against Russia to the best of his ability, and the wealthiest and most influential, therefore, did the most. Another important speech was that of Herr Elven, regarding the so-called military and civil commis sioners of the Posen Committee, whom the prosecu tion bad recommended to be sentenced to imprison ment. He observed that if the system of the prosecution was to be followed, 93 of the accused ought to lose their heads. The tribunal must deliver a just sentence, and therefore it cannot make any distinction between Messrs Kosinski, Niegolewski, and .Rustejko, and the rest of the accused. If both the members of the committee, and its commis sioners, knowingly acted with a hostile intent towards Prussia, they should all equally be cons demned ; those who did not so act should be declared innocent. Which was the more guilty, he who conceived the treason, or he who knowingly exe cuted it ? Oa the 23d nit. M. Komutski, one of the accused, made a sts'ement which will probably have a great influence on the ultimate decision of the court. The Crown prosecutor had founded his motion, that sen tence of death should be passed on the alleged mem- bers of the Posen Committee, chiefly on a passage in an address from that committee, in which it is stated that the committee "had its rise" in the National Government at Warsaw, M. Ko=zutski proved that this passage, which is in the official translation of the address, is a misrepresentation of the original. His statement was confirmed by the Polish trans.. lator appointed by the Court. At the conclusion of the trial, M. Mittlestadt, the counsel for the prosecution, said that, while fully believing that the counsel for the defence were convinced of the innocence of their clients, he and the Crown Prosecutor saw no reason for departing from the: charges they had made against the accused from the beginning. High treason consists not only in actions, but in thought and intention. Herr Lewald reminded the Court what were the hopes and fears of the defence when the trial com- menced, and what were their expectations now. They could only expect from the nature of the ac- ousation that the prosecution would make 102 motions recommending sentence of death to be passed, and support them by showing what dangers had threatened the Prussian monarchy. Yet of the 128 persons tried, the prosecution had pro posed the liberation of 63, and the execution of four only. These proposals for the liberation of the accused were hardly less painrut than those recom mending the punishment of death. Under what a system did they live, if there was so little security for individual freedom P Sixty three persons had been confined in prison for upwards of a year, and now the prosecution itself recommended their liberation.! He regarded this fact as ominous of danger to all Prussians, and in the whole course of the trial he could not refrain from thinking of the old principle, " res tna agitur." He concluded as bllows :—" We have now for six months been to- gether with men of a different nationality from ,hat of the majority of the counsel who defended hem. It may be that this entire devotion on our part to their interests will help to bring to. gether the two nationalities, The fault of what has hero been disclosed does not entirely belong to the authorities and the police—intra nzuros pee- Cahnll est et extra. But it is a larger question— whether the _whole body of each nationality will io future be more friendly to the other. One g I will venture to say in the name of my fellow counsel. We have taken a sincere liking for the accused who are here present. Many of them man of lofty mind and feeling, we shall never forget, and I trust they will remain our friends. Gentlemen of the Coart,l believe you will draw from this an opinion opposed to that advo- cated by the prosecution. We are, all but two, Prussian Germans. We would, no doubt, th ;Lier any circumstances do our duty; but wo could never ba : s q defended these men w ith suc h d eep an d ardent feeling Lad we felt the shadow of a suspicion that they had design :d to attack our country. Yes, gentlemen, we believe—wt; are convinced—that in this case not one of the accused .thought of any hos- tile design towards Prussia; and in utis belief, based on the strongest conviction, I bring before you, in the name of my fellow•counsel, the request—or rather the hope and strong expectation—that yug will liberate all the accused, there paying the debt of justice. Otherwise you cannot do." THE CAFTOR OF THE FLORIDA.--It seems that Captain Collins, of the Waohusetts, has before per• formed a similar exploit of making a capture in neutral waters. This occurred on the 21st of December, 1862, while in commend of the Octerora, when he seized the British schooner Mont Blanc, a small craft of nine tons, while she was lying at anchor within a mile cf Bahama Banks, and took her to Key West. The Prize Court at that place soon released her on the ground that she was clearly within British wafers at the time of capture. Lord Lyons brought the matter to the attention of the Government, and, after a full examination, Mr Seward acknowledged the error of Captain Collins, admitted the right of the owner of the schooner to damages► and stated that Captain Collins 'would be notified that he had incurred the disapprobation of the Preeident..- Pottland Argus. _ VALE OF NEATII RAILWAY.—The negotiktionE which have for some time past been pending between the directors of the Great Western and Vale of Neath Cora panies have terminated in an arrangement that the Vale of Neath Company are to receive 5.0625 parts of 100 of the net earnings of the united compauies, with a fixed mini mum of £84,000 per annum, 1051 10 431 31 LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening., FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 7. E.d Rtnze'!, her Majesty's Pklcipal E.".2.cretary of &Ate for Foreiga Affairs, has recaivzi information from her Majesty's Minister at S:ut:ga'Jt to the effect that it has been notlfied in the Official Gazette of Wurtemburg, that the nece:sity for trave:ers b 3 , g p rov id e d w i th passports at the frontier or within the Kin3dom of Wurtemburg is abolished. Foreigners travel Ling vt:t'in the Kingdom must, however, be replr,,d o frz:•ziah proof of their iden tity tad their nationally, er:led upon by the police au thori' ice to do en. FOREIGN OFFICE, D EC . 3. The (Zucca has been gr..eicatsly pleased t o appoint Charles Livlogsto Le , E sq ., Low her Majest y's C onsul at Fel land° Po, to be alno her Itlgjesl3 'a Consul i n t'.4o teal tor :cs on the Western Corr, of comprised within the Eight of Biafra, and lying be weep Caps Formosa and Cai:e St Jule:— DECEMBER 6. The Qtcra has baen ote-s. - 1 to approve of M. Armand Raivigt r as Consul at Brisb.:ne fur its Aides:) , the King of Pi usF-ia. The Que:n b..; also been pie- , -I to approve of non Joa. quin reis 'a Sa'rn=:cgu as Con All at Nmcc.3tlo for Ler Dijus y the Queen cf QuPeu h:s a'Eo been pleased to approve of Mr Gaorga Tudor Pember•on as Comm, at Quebec for the Free Hau secic Ciy of Hamhurgh. 1 he Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor James L. Hart es Viob-Consul in London for the United States of Colombia. WAR OFFICE, DEC. 9 Th Queen has bt en graciously ple,r,ed to give orders for the appointment of I.4;eutenaat-,;oloael Cherles George Gordon of tb.e Roy Erglue-Jrs, some r: me employed in be service of h's Imrt.iei Alej , s;y the Emperor of China, to be Gn Honorary alemb?r of the Mi l itary Division of the Third Cliss, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of rho Bath. CROWN.OFFICE, DEC. 9. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR, LIAMENT. County of Suffolk—Western Div!sion—Augast.us Henry Charles rletvey (comrncnly called Lord Augustus Henry Charles Hervcy), in the room of Frederick William John Hervey (commonly cal..k.d Earl Jermyn), now Marquis of Bristol, summoneu to the Houss of Peers. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 9. ' 3d Regiment of Dragoon Gaal.ls—Fredelick FitzwiPiam ; Trench Hobbs, Esq., lite Cape - ern 55th Foot, to be Pay , wester, vivo Paym a ste r , with th e h onorary rank of Cap te'n, Acmes Me - shat Cricket - ill, deceased, 4th Dregoon Gueeee—Fiedeeick William Gosselin, Goat., to be Cornet, by perehe- vice John Warren Elberton, transfelred to i.te 14 . '1 Hussars. 14th Heesars—Coinet Jobn We _en Roberton, from the 4th Dragcons, to be Cornet, viva Jvmes Logan White, promoted. 20th HIMT? - 3—Major Charles Campbell Hook has retired upon a pensi - n eqcrivzlent to the he!f-pay of a Major, and not that of a Caw - I'r, as stated in the Gazette of the 16th of November, 1861. Royal Arlllely—Lieutenant Colonel Edwa r d W ray, C. 8., from the Supernumerary Vet to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice William Dav:d Aitken, removed to the Supernu merery List—Gentleman Cadet Augustus Browne, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, vice Dedgsor, who resigns —Sergeant Major Charles Clarke to be Riding Master, to complete the establishment. The surname of the Gentleman Cadet appointed to a Lieutenantcy, vice Leishmar, is Domvile, and not Domville, as stated in the Gtzatte of the 16th August last. Royal Eesneers—Lieutenant Colonel Harry Rivers to be Colonel, vice who retires upon full pay—Cap tain John Willfam Play: it to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Rivera—Scrand Captain Julius George Thomas Ge:ffi h to be Capt-an, vice Playfair— Second Captain George Philipp, on the Supernumerary List, to be Captain—Second Captain Charles Nassau be Capta!n, vice Loetter, wLo retires on tem porary half-pay—Lieutenant Brownlow Hugh Mathew to he becond Captain, vice Griffith—Lieutenant Daniel Currie Walker to be Second Captain, vice Martin —Lieu. teran:. Hobart Home to bo Second Captain, vice Mon ci.cff, who reign , —Gentleman Cadet John Thomas Wright, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu, tenant with temporary rank, vice Mathew—Gentlemen Cadet Ambrose Awdry, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, with terepora.y rank, vice SA iney, ccaged —Gendleman Cadet Bi End Hurst, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenant, with temporary rank, vice Walker— Gentleman Cadet Stonier Waller, from the Royal tary Academy, to be Lieutenant with temporary rank, vice Home. 3d Itegiment of Foot—Lieut.-Colonel William M'Call, from halt pay UnaAached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel John Neptune Sargent, C. 8., who retires upon temporary half pay—Major Thomas George Gardiner to be Lieut.-Colonel, by phichase, vice Wean, who retires —Captain Charles Moore B. Siree to be Major, by par., chase, vice Gardiner—Lieut. Rober:, - Burdett Moray to be Captain, by pu - chase, vice Siree—Ensign George Agar Alexander to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vic e Morony—Ashby Pochin, Gen; . , to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Alexander. 7th Foot—Lieutenant Richard Albert Vercoo Pope, from the 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hill, who ex changes. 9th Foot—Quartermaster Serjeant John Casey, to be Quartermaster, vice Wiliiam Ba n b ury , appointed Pay. master to the Oth Foot. 11th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Herbert Skill to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant William Joseph Tibbs, wito has resigned that appointment. 29th Few—Fletcher Cattell Hungerford Littledale, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edmund Carrington, promoted. 36th Foot—Ensign William Verner Ellis to be Lieutenant, by purchase , v.ce William Ed w i n P r i ce, who retires— Froleric Lloyd Harford, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Ellis. 39th Foot—Lieutenant Rowland Hill, from the 7th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Pope, who exchanges. 40th Foot—Staff-Surgeon John Ellen Young, M.D,, to bo Surgeon, vice Henry Frederick Robertson, appointed to the Staff. 44th Foot—Lieutenant George Egerton Hodgson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Capt a i n an d B revet-Major the Hon. Robert Beillie-Harnilt-in, who retires—Ensign Thome.; Thomr-on Irvine to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vios Hodgson—Myatt Ilesleden Foster, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Irvine. 6Lith Foci—Thomas Rancho Powys-Keck, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cecil John Shepherd, pro moted. 62d Foot—Lieut. John Henry Pagan to be Instructor o Musketry, vice Captain Joseph Sanderson, who has re signed that appointment. 73d Foot—Joseph Came Roes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Richard Johd Airey, promoted. 75th Foot—Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. P. Gordon to be Lieutenant Colonel, without pur. chase, vice Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel Wm. R - dcliff, who ret'fes ui on full pay—Captain and Brevet Major Thomas Clement Dunbar to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, Gordon—, Lieutenant Richard Wadeson to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major Dunbar—Ensign Charles He'ismau lieycoc . :, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wadebon. 92d Foot— Lieut. Robert Alexander Emmet to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieut. Alexander Forbes Mackay, ap pointed Adjutant. 4th West India Regiment—Sergeant Major .Josiah Gerard to be Ensign, without purchase, vice George Henry Cary, promoted. . _ . - STAFF.—Major Alexander Abercrombie Nelson (from Fort Major, Guernsey;, half pay, late of a Dapot Battalion, to b 3 Deputy Adjutint General to the Forces serving in Jamaica, vice Brevet Colonel J. W. R3ynolds, Captaia, halt pay, Unattached, whose period of service on the Staff has expired. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon Henry Frederic Robert son, from the 4Uth Foot, to be Staff-Surgeoa, vice John, Eldon Young, M.D., appointed to the 40th Foot. BREVET. • Colonel Charles Frederick North, retired full-pay, Royel Engineers, to be Major General, the rank being honorary only. _ _ _ Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet Colonel William Rad cliff, retired full-pay, Th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major General. Mafor Alexander Abercrombie Nelson, half-pay, late of a Depot Battalion, Deputy Adjutant General in Jamaica, to be Lieutenant Colonel, Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Capt a in, R o b e rt Smytb, 69'h Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major. Paymaster Terence Rowan, 34th Foot, to have the hono rary rank of Captain. The folio% ing piomotions to take place in consequence of the decease of General Edward Buckley Wynyard, C. 8., Colonel of the 58th Foot, on Nov. 24, 1b64 Lieutenant General Charles George James Arbuthnot, Colonel of the 9lat Foot, to be General. Major General Charlee GascAgnei Colonel of the 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant General. Lieutenaot Colonel and Brevet Colonel Frederick Paul Haines, from half pay late Bth Foot, serving with the rank of Brigadier General, to be Major General. Captain and Brevet Major Francis William Hasdugs, Royal Artillery, to be Lieutenant Colonel. Captain George Thompson, 85th Foot, to be Major. The following Lieutenant-Colonels of the Royal Bngi nem hiving completed the qualifying service in their pre• sent rank, to be Colonels, muter the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 14th October, 1853, viz.:—Robert Michael Laffan, Arthur Henry Freeing, Harry St George Ord, and Hampden Clement B. Moody. ADMIRALTY, DEC. G. The following promotions have been made :—Mr W Mina Thomas Bray to be First Class Assistant Engineer, with seniority of 30th November, 1864—Mr Henry Vatoher to be First Class Assistant Engineer, with seniority of 29.4 November, 1864. DEC 7. The following promotions hive been made : —Mr Thos. henry Kitto to be Engineer in the Fleet, with se n i or i ty of 30th November, 1864, Mr George Francis Sutton, Mr H:nry Hull, and Mr William Tottenham, to to Engineers in the Fleet—Mr John Gordon, Mr Frederick Will ant nobinso:, Mr William Chase, Mr Thomas Gray, Mr Wiliam HammonJ, and Mr William Birmingham Cettam, to be Acting Engineers in the Fleet. Course of Exchange,—Yesterday, Amsterdam Ditto Ro!.'erdam 11 14 Antwerp • - • 25 55 8.0 ,els —2 i Han.bu g Pat is• ~ ............ Short. 25 1 71 l.i . ............ 3 Mantim. 25 521 M..- ',las .. Fk..l .. kn',. r U ..I,,,rze - 120/ Vi, . L .. 'Fr . .. Pe, kuri.:,4 - 31h Be, i:li — Albak ;it Ca -- z — 47 47/ Lc,storn ............ -- 26 721 25 771 M:.4la. ............. ...... 25 72 25 77§ Genoa — 2.5 721 2.5 771 INsp - ,.a - 26 721 25 771 Pa1erm0...... DIE'S' 'a — 26 721 25 771 Lisb3u - 511 oil op:, 0 For , -: u C0.,1 in ar. :; ('":A/(1...:t1)...,..p^r oz., X; 17 9 51ex.ein DolLts 0 0 0 Siher in Bata (Standaal). 11 16 11 19 12 19 95 62j 25 62! 13 8 25 2 60 25 60 1208 12 15 12 15 3I C 8 9